Devils took a 3-0 lead less then 10 minutes in, but the Cats have now came back and added 2 powerplay goals later in the 1st and an equalizer at the beginning of the 2nd. Both starting goalies have been pulled.

I'm guessing that most of the fans of that Devils-Panthers series are probably Devils fans, but man I love that rat-throwing tradition in Florida. Such an awesome story behind that miraculous 96 run for Florida.

ive been monitoring them all season, never really watching the games just looking at box scores and such, I know the NBA is an unpopular topic around here, but the pistons have had there moments this season where they look like a good team. As for tonight Cleveland is tanking the rest of this season for the draft, Brandon Knight is starting to look like a complete point guard, just need another big to complement Monroe and they could not suck next year.

Hopefully Nashville's puck luck runs out. A puck did get past Rinne, but another player cleared it off the line. Then Legwand covered the puck, no call (not that the Wings would have scored on the penalty shot).

Other games the few times he's been out of position on a rebound, someone blocked the shot.

Let it be. exmtroj is notorious for being the first guy to deploy phrases like "fucking pathetic", "shitty-ass losers", "fuck this team" and other ambulance chasing phrases. He's not happy unless he can be a dick about losing.

This is his second year in the playoffs. Went 7 games against the Sharks last year and they had an upper echelon offense last year with all those weapons. They were deeper than we were at forward last year. He played well enough for us to win that series. We are not losing this current series against the Preds because of Howard. He's played well enough IMO.

I hate being the type of fan who gets mad when his team is losing, but this year, more than ever, we are in danger of going down 3 games to 1 to a team we haven't just dominated, but have outplayed, outshot and flat out beat. this is me throwing my hands in the air, squealing like a girl and simply saying NOT FAIR

Jimmy takes some of the blame, but the three Wings on one guy take a god deal as well. There is no reason for three guys to focus on one, it left two Preds cutting right down the middle wide open. The worst part one was Lidstrom who is supposed to be the smartest player at all times at all times. I am assuming that they weren't communicating at all on that play, that is the only reason i can think to as why three guys would follow one into the corner.

Of course, this being the way things have been officiated in this year's NHL playoffs, rather than being on a 5 minute power play the Blackhawks actually ended up shorthanded after that hit. All four officials claim to have not seen it.

Before anybody gives you shit for not believing or whatever those on their high horses say, it's painfully clean that this team doesn't just need to add one star to the line up to fix everything.

We have a good number of tired old guys who have already won a cup and that against a team of hungry young fellas is going to count for nothing in the moxie dept.

This team needs forwards that can handle the puck, a first liner for Datsyuk to work with, and a solid #3 defender. When your scoring leader is Franzen with a mere 20 something goals, you'll be in trouble one April.

Finally, I don't think Babcock should be fired. That's just silly. But he does need to have a very uncomfortable conversation this summer in which he sits across the table from Holland and answers the question "you've had arguably a top 3 team in hockey the past three years, and hardly make it into May, what's going wrong?"

I'm not irrational, or a shitty fan. I realize how dumb ass luck has played a role in our demise these past four games. But in reality, I think the game of hockey has passed us by, at least as far as playoff strategy goes.

I know we may win the next three in a row, I know that we got that streak and looked really good this mid season before the injuries hit, but I am a passionate and level headed fan who for the first time

In his 25 years of Red Winga fandom is very sick at his stomach and pissed off beyond belief at this team.

No one is going to bow down to us simply because there's a winged wheel on our chest anymore.

Next year could be a totally different team. Possibly no Lidstrom or Homer, definitely no Stuart...that should open up quite a bit of cap space. I wonder if we'll take a run at Suter or someone like him

Parise, Alexander Semin, and maybe even Nash too. The problem with Suter is that, after beating the Wings, why would he want to go to the Wings? Nashville is clearly on the up and Detroit clearly on the down - he has a much better chance at a Cup with Nashville at this point.

Hopefully, if we don't pull of the comeback, Nashville gets shellacked in the next round. And given that Nashville will be spending the majority of their time trying to court Weber, and he might be willing to come here.

But I doubt we'll have a shot with Nash. Columbus is still hoping they can build a team around him, so to part with him it'll take an arm and a leg

I'm not saying we need to go back to the drawing board, but this team needs a new direction with a big name guy. The last month or 2 of this season was the absolute worst Wings hockey I've seen in a long time, which is why I'm not at all surprised by this series with Nashville. There is just something missing.

There will be some huge names out there this summer and I'm praying the Red Wings will be making one of the bigger moves.

With a couple exceptions -- the ridiculous lack of discipline on the second goal jumps out -- this is nothing more than terrible luck. If we keep playing like this, we have a great shot of winning three in a row. We have been as dominant as any team thus far.

Oh and PS, just once I want to hear a sportscaster acknowledge the role of luck. "Well, team x played like garbage, but sometimes you hit on 20 and get an ace."

I would say so. If they lose (I know it's probably gonna happen, but we came back from down 3 last year, it's not over yet), it's only 3 early exits. The Wings aren't a "lose a series, fire a coach" type of team, and I don't think management will overreact to that

I just got home from the game. Im fucking sick as hell always seeing a goalie steal a series from us. Every year the Wings lose a series and all you hear is "The other team was lucky" or "There is nothing you can do about running into a hot goal tender". I say to hell with that. Can anyone remember a series the Wings have stolen? Ever? Why the hell can't we ever just go out and get a top 5 goalie that isn't on the down side of his damn career? And don't tell me J Howard is a top goalie. He is not.